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Esquire • SUMMER 2024

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Star power • In Hong Kong, Pharrell Williams sets a tropical mood for summer

Bagelmania! • What’s behind the New York-style bagels craze?

Mighty real • An electrifying new book celebrates the influence of LGBTQ artists and tastemakers on mainstream pop culture

Larging it • This summer, bags go big

The voice • A new star arrives to turbo-charge British R’n’B

Going topless • This summer, allow Maserati to take the roof off

Supermodel on display • A great British institution celebrates a great British institution

Some kind of monster • For a new Netflix series, a giant of the screen teams up with… Benedict Cumberbatch

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Tinted love • How Hollywood fell for Jacques Marie Mage

“Aha. 10 o‘clock!” • A chef’s bracing secret sauce, for late nights and early mornings

What goes up… • Shorts are lengthening. Will the market react?

In it for the clicks • For his new movie, an actor turns photographer

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POWER PLAY • IN 2024, YOU’RE NOT A TRUE STAR UNLESS THERE IS A HIT DOCUMENTARY SERIES DEVOTED TO YOU ON A PRESTIGE STREAMER. AND, IF YOU CAN SWING IT, WHY NOT DEMAND FINAL CUT — AND A SHARE OF THE PROFITS? ESQUIRE ASKS: WHAT HAPPENED TO EDITORIAL INTEGRITY? AND HOW COME WE CAN’T STOP WATCHING?

NOT OVER THE MOON • For as long as humans have existed, we’ve stared in wonder at the ever-changing shape in the night sky. On the 55th anniversary of the 1969 Moon landing (and with the first since 1972 scheduled for 2026), Esquire counts down 55 things we know about the satellite so far

IN THE EMPATHY GAME • Sherlock’s Moriarty. Fleabag’s Hot Priest. Hamlet’s Hamlet. Ripley’s… Ripley. Andrew Scott is the shapeshifting scene stealer turned award-winning leading man, with talent and charisma to burn. Over a long lunch with Esquire, he talks love, grief, friendship, dressing like an 11-year-old and why he’d love to do a musical comedy

THE WINE-DARK SEA • Menswear sets sail for summer

Peak football: Will Hersey on the greatest tournament • MEXICO 1970. SPAIN 1982. BRAZIL 2014… FANTASTIC FESTIVALS OF FOOTBALL, EVERY ONE. BUT NOT THE BEST EVER. BECAUSE THE BEST INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT EVER PLAYED WASN’T A WORLD CUP. INSTEAD, IN THE NETHERLANDS AND BELGIUM NEARLY A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO, ZINEDINE ZIDANE’S FRANCE, REIGNING WORLD CHAMPIONS, WON THE MOST THRILLING, SURPRISING, FREE-SCORING FINALS IN HISTORY. AS WE WAIT FOR THE EUROS TO KICK OFF IN GERMANY IN JUNE, WILL HERSEY COUNTS DOWN THE 11 ESSENTIAL MOMENTS THAT MADE EURO 2000 UNSURPASSABLE

THE SECOND LIFE OF SINGLE MALT • On a windswept island off the coast of Scotland, a “ghost distillery” reopens for business

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